🫙 Jar
🫙 Meaning and usage
This emoji depicts a glass jar with a screw-on metal lid. Its meaning is highly context-dependent and often extends far beyond the simple object:
🫙 Direct meaning: storage and preservation
Food and cooking: Preserves, jam, pickles, honey, sauces.
- Example: "I made cucumbers for the winter 🫙."
- Example: "Try my homemade jam 🫙."
Storage: For cereals, spices, cosmetics, bulk materials.
- Example: "I poured all the grains into jars 🫙 — now the kitchen is perfectly tidy."
🫙 Abstract and modern meanings
Fundraising, "jar": In Western culture, and now on the Russian internet, a jar is associated with a piggy bank or a fundraising campaign. The emoji has become a symbol of crowdfunding, donations (on streams), or a hint at the price of something.
- Example: “We need funds for a new project, please contribute as much as you can to the general fund 🫙.”
- Example: "How much is this?" — 🫙 (hint: "How much are you willing to put in the jar?").
Ideas, thoughts, feelings: A metaphor for storing something intangible.
- Example: "Opened a jar of old memories 🫙."
- Example: "My idea bank is empty right now 🫙."
🫙 "Skeletons in the Closet" / Secrets: A jar as a vessel in which something hidden or shameful is stored.
- Example: "Everyone has their own secret 🫙."
🫙 Popular internet trends and memes
Pickle Jar meme: Symbolizes a difficult, almost impossible problem a man faces (referring to his inability to open the jar).
- Example: "This bug is my 🫙."
"We Are Not The Same" Community: Used to create contrast, often in a humorous manner.
- Example: "You keep jam in a jar. I keep the tears of my enemies in a jar. 🫙 We are not the same."
Cryptocurrencies and NFTs: In some circles, it can symbolize a "hard-currency wallet" or cold storage of assets, similar to a piggy bank.
How it appeared
- The 🫙 emoji was approved as part of the Unicode 14.0 standard in 2021 and will be available on major platforms in 2022-2023.
- Its addition was a response to user requests for emojis to represent food, storage, and various metaphors that are difficult to convey with existing symbols (for example, a jar is not the same as a simple glass 🥃).
Interesting facts
- Late but swift recognition: Despite its recent introduction, 🫙 has quickly become one of the most popular and meaningful emoji of the new generation.
- Visual differences: The jar design varies across platforms. Some are empty (Apple), others contain a red or orange, jam-like substance (Google, Samsung), and others are transparent with greenish contents (WhatsApp).
- Chameleon Emoji: Its meaning depends almost 100% on the context of the message and the accompanying emoji/text.
Combination with other emoji
Combinations reveal a specific meaning:
🫙 + 🍯 (honey): Direct reference to honey or something sweet.
🫙 + 🥒 (cucumber) / 🍓 (strawberry): Pickles, marinades, jam.
🫙 + 💰 (money) / 💵 (banknote) / 💎 (crystal): Fundraising, accumulation, piggy bank, investments.
🫙 + 😭 (tears) / 💀 (skull): Memes like "tears of enemies," "skeletons in the closet," and dark humor.
🫙 + 🧠 (brain): "Bank of ideas", "knowledge repository".
🫙 + 🤔 (thoughtful face) / 💪 (strength): A reference to the meme about a difficult can that you can't open.
🫙 for SEO content promotion
The 🫙 emoji will be appropriate on platforms and in communities of various types:
- Cooking and DIY: Websites about cooking, recipes, canning, healthy eating, and farm products.
- Fintech and cryptocurrencies: Savings apps, crowdfunding platforms, finance and investment blogs.
- Social networks and messengers: Ideal for Twitter, Telegram, Discord for creating memes, metaphors and hints.
- Psychology and self-development: Blogs that talk about emotions, secrets, and personal growth (as a "vessel" metaphor).
- Ecology and zero-waste: Websites promoting reusable containers, plastic-free shopping, and conscious consumption.
🫙 is an emoji metaphor. It has evolved from a simple kitchen utensil to a powerful symbol representing accumulation (money, ideas), storage (secrets, feelings), and has become part of modern internet trends. Its versatility is its greatest strength.
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